Gabon - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Gabon was 68.90 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 90.83 in 1993 and 62.75 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 62.75
1961 63.60
1962 64.28
1963 64.84
1964 65.34
1965 65.83
1966 66.82
1967 67.68
1968 68.44
1969 69.13
1970 69.76
1971 71.59
1972 73.19
1973 74.62
1974 75.94
1975 77.17
1976 78.68
1977 80.05
1978 81.27
1979 82.32
1980 83.19
1981 84.42
1982 85.42
1983 86.22
1984 86.87
1985 87.42
1986 88.28
1987 88.94
1988 89.44
1989 89.80
1990 90.05
1991 90.50
1992 90.76
1993 90.83
1994 90.67
1995 90.27
1996 89.84
1997 89.15
1998 88.24
1999 87.17
2000 85.97
2001 84.64
2002 83.19
2003 81.69
2004 80.19
2005 78.74
2006 76.87
2007 75.13
2008 73.56
2009 72.19
2010 71.01
2011 69.82
2012 68.73
2013 67.83
2014 67.12
2015 66.55
2016 67.21
2017 67.80
2018 68.32
2019 68.70
2020 68.90

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population